Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and South Carolina lawmaker.

Pierre Louis Alexandre, a dockworker who modeled at the art academy on the side, appeared in painting after painting. Karin ...

He saw his art “as an expression of the present age for posterity, to keep burning for all time.” Indeed, his Yale windows don’t so much celebrate slavery as they chronicle it.

The artist shares: At first, I had to be extremely resilient because my work was concerned with the slave trade, slavery, colonialism, racism, and human rights. I embraced uncomfortable dialogue.

SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — A South Bay artist has been centering his work around the joy of culture and community, while not forgetting the enduring legacy of slavery in the U.S.

The portrait of Russell Sturgis at the Worcester Art Museum has a new sign next to it with information about his connections to slavery. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) This article is more than 6 years old.

"It was a hard-earned life," said Leslie Umberger, curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., which is holding a retrospective of Traylor's art – 155 paintings and ...

Princess Eugenie, who co-founded The Anti-Slavery Collective to end modern slavery and trafficking in 2017, attended a London art exhibit supporting the cause ...

In ‘We Have Made These Lands What They Are: The Architecture of Slavery,’ artist Keris Salmon examines the lives of enslaved people and the places they lived in the American South. Special ...

News Cleveland Museum of Art takes on slavery, racism, discrimination, injustice in ‘Picturing Motherhood Now’ Updated: Oct. 26, 2021, 10:24 a.m. | Published: Oct ...